New York City: Day Four

Somehow the Sunday day post was deleted and it was a day definitely worth posting about! Our Sunday in New York City was definitely one of my absolute favorites. Our day started out with going to Hillsong Church. If you know anything about this church you know that it is a MEGA church and that almost all other churches use the worship songs Hillsong wrote. However, this church is incredible in another way as well. When you walk up to the venue people welcome you to Church, not Hillsong, or Hillsong United, or Hillsong Church... just church. I was so refreshing to see a mega church not try to brand themselves with their name but focus on what truly matters. We also sang one of my favorite worship songs, "When Feet May Fail," you can listen to it {here}

After an incredible God filled service we went out into the City to spill over His love. Emily and I decided to head to Brooklyn today to eat amazing pizza and walk the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. We took the 4 train downtown from Union Square Station to Fulton Street... from there we transferred to the downtown A train and got off on High Street and walked down towards the water with incredible views welcoming us.

Grimaldi's pizza already had a line down the block for their famous coal brick oven pizza. 

 The view of One World Trade Center was spectacular. 

 We decided to have lunch at another famous pizza place, Ignazio's... and yes we ate the WHOLE THING!

 In the left corner of this picture you can see lady liberty, which we get to see because the state of New York decided to pay to keep her open while the government is shutdown!

 Walking the bridge was an incredible experience. You hear so many different languages along the walk and the views leave you speechless!

 You can see Empire State in the picture below!

 Being an Engineer, Emily was amazed by the civil engineering feat that the bridge stands for.

 After we crossed into Manhattan we explored the financial district a little bit.

 We found a really neat park/memorial. It was the Irish Hunger Memorial, all the stone and plants were from Ireland! Who knew you could visit the Irish countryside in New York City?!

New York City: Day Three

On our third day in the City, Katie {my friend we are staying with} walked us around West Village, Meat Packing District, Chelsea and SoHo. We took the 6 train downtown to 14th street Union Station and from there we walked to Washington Square Park.

This park is so beautiful and has been featured in many movies... It is surrounded by NYU's campus and it is where we saw the first glimpse of One World Trade Center.

West Village is a beautiful walk...There were so many dog boutiques that even had puppies for sale in the window!

The High Line is incredible and a must see if you visit lower Manhattan. It is an old railway that was recreated into an above ground park! It is a beautiful place to stroll on a pretty day.

Love these girls!

When we left the High Line we headed to Chelsea Market... Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures because I was to busy smelling all the INCREDIBLY amazing fresh food smells. They had fresh cheeses, breads, pasta, spices, cupcakes, seafood, donuts and the list could just go on and on.  After we left the market we headed to SoHo to do some shopping! Emily and I both had saved up for one expensive item on the trip... hers at Kate Spade and mine at Frye or Tory Burch.

The boots were all so gorgeous... it was a hard decision to walk away. C Wonder is also such a fun store, full of pink, green, gold and monograms... can't go wrong with that!

I ended up investing in a pair of black and gold Tory Burch flats! I decided they would be more worth while than another pair of boots:) and Emily purchased a beautiful gold bow ring from Kate Spade.

We celebrated with a HUGEE piece of pumpkin spice cake with maple cream cheese frosting {devoured it to quickly to take a picture}... hoping to visit the Little Cupcake Bakeshop again before we leave!

Katie took us to a delicious restaurant for dinner, The Smith. It was such a southern comfort food place... Em and I split fried green beans and a massive chicken pot pie. Also if that doesn't sell this place... they have a photo-booth downstairs... yep perfect restaurant.